A previous staging in this format two years ago saw a mass brawl break out between Dublin and Galway players resulting in fines and suspensions.

Backed by Dublin sponsors AIG, it is driven by the GPA with the GAA’s approval.

The GPA has already come under fire this week after it emerged that its wage bill for 2016 was a staggering €921,121 for a staff of 12, with a mammoth €490,418 paid to persons in “key management positions”.

The super 11s has been derided by the likes of former Laois boss Seamas ‘Cheddar’ Plunkett in the past and Quaid is also critical.

“The players get a trip out of it,” acknowledged the former Limerick star. “GAA players don’t get much out of it but the one thing about it, it’s very elitist.

“A lot of the players that are going there will have got trips with the All Stars, things like that. I don’t see the purpose of it, to be honest.

“The funding for that and the likes of ourselves in Kildare are fighting to get basically anything we can to try and keep the thing going.

“If we had the budget for one of the teams going to America, the amount of stuff we could do with that in Kildare would be huge.

“The board could put more money into the development squads and stuff.

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“From our own side of it, we don’t have the budget there for the top of the range tracking devices, you know, stuff like that, which all cost money.

“Every second tier team is working on a budget and a very tight budget.

“To be fair, Kildare county board are very good in ways but there’s a lot more that could be done.

“We could have more guys doing coaching, individualised coaching, and that’s where second tier counties need that. All that takes funding like,” he told Mirror Sport.

There’s a newly created six-team second tier hurling competition next year which Kildare have been shut out of as they continue in the Christy Ring Cup, which Quaid is also unhappy about.

“The bit that annoyed me about it is that Antrim are put into it. Antrim didn’t win the Christy Ring.

“Why did Antrim get pushed up into it and we didn’t? They were in the final but they hadn’t won it.

“It just annoys me like that we beat Westmeath in the League, nothing thought of it. We drew with Carlow but at the same time then when funding is being handed out to the counties, Kildare aren’t in that pot.

“It’s not even all about money either. Counties have to look after their own side of it as well but the money that’s being wasted sending teams to America, it could very easily be put into the GAA in other ways.”

Quaid also confirmed that, as of now, he will be drawing from a panel of homegrown players next year after welcoming former Kilkenny star John Mulhall, Limerick pair David and Mike Reidy and Dinny Stapleton of Tipperary on board for 2017.